Yet there's often a "silver lining". And if God exists, He's in control. Therefore...
I think one thing in its favor, in favor of this brutal crisis, is that at least it spells the end of the Vatican II Church. It's dying now but it will be "not merely dead but truly most sincerely dead" until the final demise of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a.k.a. Pope Francis.
Why?
First, how could it not? It is putrescent now.
Via his handling of the sex abuse scandals, and his promotion and defense of major sex abusers, Jorge Bergoglio has so tarnished the version of the Church created by Vatican II and its "in the spirit of Vatican II" followers, there won't be much left. Less spectacularly, he's done the same destruction with basic Church teaching. Pope Francis is a wrecking ball.
That's one thing. There won't be much left to build on.
But also there's this: Either the College of Cardinals will elect a "Bergi 2.0" or they'll elect -- well, either a "conservative" such a Cardinal Sarah or even, miracle of miracles, a Traditionalist (unlikely unless they go outside the College for that choice).
Because Progressivism is so hell-bent on the New! Improved! Change! aspect of itself (hence the very name "Progressivism", it is necessarily on a trajectory, like a rocket, aimed forever outward. Evolution is its core idea, the will of its soul, the foundation of is purpose. Therefore, there's no "reentry" for it back into the atmosphere of Catholic Traditionalism. Because of that, a "Bergi 2.0" must go ever further, such as ordaining women priests, women bishops, blessing "same-sex marriages" and so on, or Progressivism simply implodes.
Without moving forward, without evolving, without being "Progessive", it ceases to exist, as did the "Good Calvin" of Calvin and Hobbes -- the old Calvin made a new, Good Calvin but, he, the old Calvin, drove the new one to think a bad thought (i.e., made the Good Calvin want to hit him. the Old Calvin). "He could only be perfectly good as an abstracton," Calvin said of his good twin.
So it is with the Vatican II Church: it can only be "Catholic" as an abstraction of the the Church it denies being, or you might say of the Church it has rejected being, and thus will go POOF when it achieves "singularity", when it truly becomes a new Church; i.e. ceases to be remotely Catholic.
That point is fast approaching. And the Traditional Latin Mass is hastening the Singularity, for as the TLM becomes more popular and shows the power of its attraction, the whole raison d'être of the Vatican II Church's existence "spectralizes" (goes "poof!").
The remnants will be dwindling, evaporizing into ever smaller groups, and of course unable to seek the repentance necessary to join a newly invigorated Traditionalist Catholic Church (the only healthy -- though small -- part of the current Church that is growing). So the Progressive survivors will just join with the Church of England or the state Lutheran Church of Germany (both of these are "walking corpses") and that will be the end of the Vatian II Church.
Conversely, should a "Conservative" or Trad be elected pope, the German Church will go into Schism, as will many other bits and pieces of the world-wide Church that the Progressives totally control. They would have already done so had Benedict XVI not "resigned" when he did.
Therefore, they'll marginalize themselves that way. The minute they leave, everyone will see the shallow parody they are. Like political Leftists milking tax money from non-Leftist citizens, the Progressive Church can't survive without a "sheeple" paying its way.
Or one might say: An image in a mirror can't see itself, but when it steps out of the mirror, then it can. All too clearly.
An Préachán
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